You Can Get Into The US, Even If You're Banned, If You're Rich Enough To Pay The Entry Fee
Entry fee? That's what it amounted to in this Ecuadorian woman's situation. She was banned after committing visa fraud. But the Obama admin saw that the ban didn't stick.
Frances Robles writes in The New York Times, in a piece headlined "Ecuador Family Wins Favors After Donations to Democrats":
MIAMI -- The Obama administration overturned a ban preventing a wealthy, politically connected Ecuadorean woman from entering the United States after her family gave tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns, according to finance records and government officials.The woman, Estefanía Isaías, had been barred from coming to the United States after being caught fraudulently obtaining visas for her maids. But the ban was lifted at the request of the State Department under former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton so that Ms. Isaías could work for an Obama fund-raiser with close ties to the administration.
It was one of several favorable decisions the Obama administration made in recent years involving the Isaías family, which the government of Ecuador accuses of buying protection from Washington and living comfortably in Miami off the profits of a looted bank in Ecuador.
The family, which has been investigated by federal law enforcement agencies on suspicion of money laundering and immigration fraud, has made hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to American political campaigns in recent years. During that time, it has repeatedly received favorable treatment from the highest levels of the American government, including from New Jersey's senior senator and the State Department.
The Obama administration has allowed the family's patriarchs, Roberto and William Isaías, to remain in the United States, refusing to extradite them to Ecuador. The two brothers were sentenced in absentia in 2012 to eight years in prison, accused of running their bank into the ground and then presenting false balance sheets to profit from bailout funds. In a highly politicized case, Ecuador says the fraud cost the country $400 million.
People on the left like to believe the Democrats are the party of the people. Don't kid yourself. They're the party of the rich people, just like the Republicans.
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"People on the left like to believe the Democrats are the party of the people. Don't kid yourself. They're the party of the rich people, just like the Republicans."
No they aren't. The Democrats are the party of the super rich, the poor, the illegals, the grifters, government employees, special interests, and socialist useful idiots, all aligned against most of the professional classes, tradesmen, small businesses and people who work for a living.
Isab at December 17, 2014 6:47 AM
This is why the public has lost faith in our institutions, both private and governmental.
roadgeek at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM
The democrats trend to demographic extremism. The very rich and the very poor are democrats. The middle class is republican. The very educated and the very uneducated are democrats. High grades in high school to BA/BS degree are usually republicans. Government employees are most likely democrats.
I don't know how the entrepreneurs split. I do know people who found companies that do very well very quickly are usually democrats. While people who found companies that then take a while to become successful are usually republicans.
Ben at December 17, 2014 6:54 PM
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